Steembottracker.com tutorial video
I wanted to work through a couple of thoughts on using steembottracker to help people make better decisions when they are using the bidbots. So, I recorded this video below and I basically walk people through the site.
If you missed my last milestone post I gained 1k followers in the last week. I attribute it to a few things, but bid bots played a role. So, I wanted to show other people how it's done. I'm co-owner of this site now for full disclosure sake, and hopefully you realize that bid bots are fun, have a promotional purpose, but definately carry risk (especially with sbd trading at 10USD). Here I try to reduce that risk for you as much as possible by giving the best explanation I can.
Marketing is usually undervalued by most noobs, because most have little or no luiquid STEEM or SBD. Here is an incentive to keep some 'cash'.
For anyone who creates value-add content, this is something to consider to use. Thanks for sharing your research @aggroed.
I was wondering if you would consider adding the different restrictions of the bots to a tooltip somewhere. Some of them have additional terms like only voting on relatively new blog posts. I'd be willing to help research for the different bots if you'd like.
Sure thing. If you find stuff we haven't I bet we can add in some notes.
Not sure if you want to add in whether the bots have a delegation service with a return on delegations, but these ones (that I could find) do: smartsteem, jerrybanfield, boomerang, booster (through frontrunner), minnowhelper, msp-bidbot
For age limits:
appreciator, upme, voter, upgoater - post cannot be older than 6 days.
minnowhelper - post cannot be older than 5 days
hellowhale - post cannot be older than 2 days
I certainly may have missed something trying to comb through the blog posts.
Do you think that bid bots are good for Steemit? It kind of undermines the purpose of the promotion feature on the site. There is also a lot of examples of people abusing bid bots to make way more on a post than the rest of the community thinks they should. What are the benefits?
Yeah not a fan personally. I used them to great profit at the start but just felt so dirty doing it.
I just felt it really was going against the nature of the community. I no longer use them. I don't mind other people using it's just not for me.
Yeah, I'm still split on it. If it's possible, you can't keep people from doing it and if you aren't using them you are behind compared to those that are, but then if everyone uses them the bots will take a chunk of the reward pool and we are all worse off.
The benefit is that you can promote your post and get more views. This helps you earn more followers. You can greatly increase the speed of your growth on the platform.
I agree. The barrier to initial views is really high. Having bots to effectively promote content with relatively low financial risk is almost necessary at this point. It's a good trade off for the bots, who end up building up a big amount of steem power, and its good for the people who donate. I would be extremely reluctant to spend 1.00 SBD to promote a post because I'd be unsure if it'd even register on the promoted page or be upvoted. With bots at least I know a few people will see it and I'll make some of my money back.
But there is already a promote button that does the same thing while returning value to Steem instead of keeping it for yourself and the bid bot.
But it still defeats the purpose of real human interaction. People may get more followers but by gaming the system.
What about writers who are good with writing but not with networking? In that scenario it opens a window to success. I believe this platform has two dimensions, one is content other networking but few people might be good at both.
Woo that's nice idea I should probably check it out
yeah... it will be helpful, nice job
Please how can I access the bidbot and besides getting me followers, what else can I use it to do on the steemit network¿
Great tutorial dear @aggroed. Thanks for share this post.
agree, with new users coming and people posting too much post a day due to high SBD, it's so hard to get some views, although I have more than 2k followers , the views on my post hardly had. I would test out this bot .. thanks for the insight.
So, your telling me that even though you’re a whale, you still use a bitbbot? Even though you have a large following, you still use the bit bot? You could comment and engage on and off the platform, but still grew the quickest following by using a bitbot? Well, why aren’t the rest of us doing the same?
Well, that's my argument, that bid bots are here. They are both an investment tool and a marketing tool. If good people don't use them or really don't allow themselves to use them then the shit posters get them at a massive discount. I think everyone should use them.
Also, I read your bitbot experiment post and delegated to the bot. Let’s see how this goes